Ever use your place of work as a model for adventure?

[Osgood]

Real life is the best place to draw inspiration fro gaming. I've used the actual locations a couple times (in modern or post apocalyptic games)... a mall the group had to infiltrate to rescue some hostages, and the ruins of a shipping hub. I have based various towns on my hometown, and have been kicking around using my home state (Ohio) as the basis for a campaign region.

The best villains and NPCs I have ever created were based on bosses I've had. One in particular has been the basis for several ruthless villains, and plenty of comically or dangerously incompetent NPCs.

 

[ender_wiggin]

I worked in a basic science lab for a few years. We used C elegans, a 1 mm worm for our experiments. C elegans physiology ended up being the basis for one of the playable species in my homebrew.

 

[Janx]

I work at home now.

The room I use as my home office, at one time, was the gaming room.

At one point during a campaign, while it was still an empty room, we held a live action session wherein the player who's PC was the sole survivor of the Battle of the Line versus the elves was interrogated about the outcome of that battle.

So, you could say, I used the place I work AS the actual set for an adventure.

We had a chair, a table, with a light (to shine in his face). I left him a note card explaining where he found himself and the constraints of the situation (that this was not a jailbreak scene wherein he could dig through my sheetrock to escape).

We then turned the temp up, and let him stew in 20 minute intervals before I and various players went in as interrogators to ask him questions about a battle he didn't know the outcome to.

it actually turned out well as was a memorable role playing scene.

The look of shock on his face when I finally asked "What happened at the Battle of the Line and why did the elves surrender!?" was priceless.

it was a nice epilogue to him aiming his ship at the elven flagship and me calling a "Cut!" to end the session the week before.

 

[Jack7]

Like Janx I work out of my home. My three home offices (well, one is a converted garage) are filled with materials from my previous employments, some of which were adventurous (in a real life sense), and with mementos of my Vads, archaeological expeditions, and other explorations. I also keep some heirlooms and things others have brought me, such as a prayer flag from the Himilayans brought to me by old military buddy.

So my offices are helpful to me in that respect - to give me a sort of feel of adventure as I work.

Coincidentally I have recently gotten some extremely good business advice, which has been very helpful, and one of the pieces of advice I got was to turn my work into a Game, and to turn my offices into adventure/exploration habitats.

My offices are already adventure habitats of a kind. And I’m designing a new, separate office building to go on our east field that will be part laboratory, part office, part retreat, and part creative design incubator.

But I had never before thought of the idea of transforming my business and work into a game – that is my business will become the Game. But I’m working on it.

 

[Wycen]

I turned a couple of bosses into evil cattle ranchers for a Dawning Star game, but never used any place of employment for mapping or environment.

 

[mwnrnc]

My friends and I recently ran an All Flesh Must Be Eaten game in which we played ourselves and the campaign took place in our city. In one session, we decided to hole up in my workplace (also the workplace of the GM) and encountered our zombified boss! Was a fun game, not too serious, with lots of gore and over-the-top ness

 

[TwoSix]

Yes, but I probably shouldn't have taken this job at the Dairy Queen in Hommlet.

 

[FoxWander]

Long ago my friends and I played a Chill zombie game where we took refuge in our local mall. It work out pretty well since two of us had made a point of getting to know that place inside and out after a zombie movie-thon one weekend. We knew where every exit and innocuous door there went. Where the hatches to the roof were. And (after getting caught during that roof exploration) we knew exactly where the security office -with it's modest gun collection and master key ring- was. Sadly 1985 was not the year of the zombipocalypse, so all our delinquency was for naught.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

I could, but I play RPGs to escape from reality.

 

[Andrew D. Gable]

I used the layout of one of my old workplaces for a ghoul-haunted Shadowrun warehouse.